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Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · 7h

Apparently, today is World Octopus Day.
So here's something for the great World Octopus.
Vive la pieuvre du monde!

Steven Flanagan @stoverfandango.bsky.social · Oct 2

Tiny comic done for an A6 pamphlet for @paperjamcc.bsky.social
#comics

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 15h

Truly, England in 2025. The level of 'I think he's after your biscuit' are off the scale. Privatised delivery of basic human needs once again primarily delivering profits (and misery).

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

loads of racist shitheads rioting outside hotels housing desperate asylum seekers who are treated abysmally cos some Sunday Times Rich List cunt is creaming off obscene profits makes my heart swell with patriotic pride 🇬🇧 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 1d

loads of racist shitheads rioting outside hotels housing desperate asylum seekers who are treated abysmally cos some Sunday Times Rich List cunt is creaming off obscene profits makes my heart swell with patriotic pride 🇬🇧 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper - BBC News

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.

www.bbc.com

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 1d

You can also get it direct from our evil but extremely convenient giant corporate associates here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FT13Q51N/ - including FREE if you have Kindle Unlimited

Secrets and Hidden Things: An anthology from the North Tyneside Writers' Circle: 3 (North Tyneside Writers' Circle Anthologies)

Buy Secrets and Hidden Things: An anthology from the North Tyneside Writers' Circle: 3 (North Tyneside Writers' Circle Anthologies) by (NTWC), North Tyneside Writers' Circle, Wilson, Jennifer C. (ISBN: 9798267243575) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 1d

Yoooo, people of Tyneside, get on the case! New local writing! Poetry! Short stories! Varied, quality stuff! Hear readings and be one of the first humans to own this collection!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2d

Writhing scene of grotesque heads (ca. 1520) by Daniel Hopfer, a German artist who is widely believed to have been the first to use etching in printmaking.

One of 900+ prints available to buy from our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/grotesque-decoration-with-animal-heads/

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2d

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘October’
(From a 1958 calendar by the always fabulous Ronald Lampitt)

A scene on a busy, beautifully tended allotment. The star of the scene is the wonderfully delicate, slightly hazy October light.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 2d

Studio Ghibli fell in love with this film and gave its director a movie deal. Master animators like Yuri Norstein call it a favorite.

Its name is Father and Daughter, and we've explored its story:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-rise-o...

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 2d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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VOLE.wtf 🐹⁉️ @vole.wtf · 2d

🥪 The 4th Crisp Sandwich Day is approaching!
Going to be celebrating it? Tell us your plans
vole.wtf/crisp-sandwi...

Crisp Sandwich Day 🥪🎉 25th October

An annual celebration of the magic that happens when crisps (potato chips) are placed between two slices of bread.

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 2d

Totally absurd and pathetic (from Starmer and the assault on free speech as much as the illiterate police)

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 3d

Beer, wine, sun, sea, pies, pies, beer beer beer, fudge, mushroom flan, see you soon

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Alistair @aebaldwin.bsky.social · 4d

That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face, you get

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

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Alexi Conman @alexiconman.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know there was a one-session drunken Motorhead/The Damned supergroup called Motordamn - released one excellent single (covers of Motorhead's Over The Top and Sweet's Ballroom Blitz)?? I did not, but now do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKR5...

Motördamn - Over the Top B/W Ballroom Blitz

YouTube video by Raised On Beers

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4d

🚨EXCLUSIVE

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Insiders reveal that the former MEP - convicted of bribery for his part in the Kremlin’s strategic plan to crush Ukrainian independence - was one of Farage’s closest aides
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides – and that he worked on the Kremlin’s strategic ...

bylinetimes.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 4d

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom: Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy a...